Baroness Scotland of Asthal: Under Reflex, the last set of figures indicates that we seized £5.5 million in criminal assets in operations against organised immigration crime groups, and during Operation Pentameter over £250,000 was seized.
	Under a Treasury agreement all receipts are remitted to the Home Office. Fifty per cent is returned to front-line agencies under an asset-recovery incentivisation scheme. The remainder contributes to core home-spending programmes. The Home Office has provided funding for protecting the victims of trafficking.

Lord Bassam of Brighton: My right honourable friend, the Secretary of State for Transport, attended an Anglo-French colloque. He travelled by Eurostar.

The Earl of Mar and Kellie: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	What is the take up of tax credits amongst (a) eligible working families; (b) single parents; and (c) old age pensioners in (i) Clackmannanshire, and (ii) Scotland.

Lord Davies of Oldham: Estimated take-up rates for tax credits amongst working families with children, broken down by country and government office region, are shown in table 9 of the HMRC publication Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credit Take-up Rates 2004-05, available on the HMRC website at: www.hmrc.gov.uk/stats/personal-tax-credits/takeup-rates2004-05.pdf. Tax credit take-up rate estimates are not available for the other breakdowns requested.